EMC Corp. will launch the Symmetrix VMAX 40K -- the largest-capacity and fastest version of its enterprise storage area network (SAN) platform -- later this month at EMC World 2012, according to industry sources and EMC marketing materials acquired by SearchStorage.com. EMC will also upgrade its Enginuity operating software, which runs inside all VMAX models.

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Move over SAN, WAN, LAN and MAN. EMC is pushing the notion of a CAN – cache area network – with its upcoming Project Thunder product.

During the Solid State Storage Symposium last month in San Jose, Calif., Brian Sorby, an EMC business development director, provided more details on the Thunder product for analysts and bloggers. EMC first disclosed Thunder when it officially launched its VFCache – formerly Project Lightning – in February. VFCache is a PCIe flash card that goes inside a server. Thunder will expand that by using PCIe flash in an appliance.

The EMC story served as a coming-out party for XtremIO, which has yet to even formally announce its arrays. There are a bunch of startups that have formally unveiled all-flash arrays, though. Not all of them are shipping yet either, but they are already elbowing for position. Nimbus Data launched its all-SSD arrays in April 2010 and is the graybeard of the group.

Symantec first launched its NetBackup 5220 enterprise appliance and Backup Exec 3660 appliance for SMBs last August, but it brought out new versions of NetBackup and Backup Exec this year. The NetBackup 5220 is a 2U appliance that now includes NetBackup 7.5 and scales to 72 TB of usable capacity. Backup Exec 3600 includes Backup Exec 2012. The appliance is a 1U box with 5.5 TB of usable capacity. The appliances combine client and target deduplication, a media server, and backup software in one box.

Cloud storage provider Nirvanix completed a $25 million Series C funding round last week with plans to build out a new engineering center in Colorado and move toward an IPO.

The round brings Nirvanix’s total funding to $70 million. CEO Scott Genereux said the company is expanding its “Cloud Competency Center” in Boulder under its new vice president of cloud storage engineering, Dave Barr, who previously led engineering for LeftHand Storage iSCSI SANs at Hewlett-Packard. Nirvanix is also keeping its San Diego engineering team.

The OECN consists of 23 Information Technology Centers (ITCs) spread across seven urban school districts with an enrollment of around 1.5 million students. All of the sites are connected through the Ohio Academic Resources Network (OARNET) fiber optic cable network.

Ryan McClay, enterprise project manager for the Management Council of the OECN, said the first StorServer appliance showed up at an OECN site in 2005. StorServer appliances -- ranging from remote site to enterprise configurations -- all include TSM software bundled with StorServer’s management console.

Accela replaces the XLR8r flash array, which Whiptail has shipped since 2009. CEO Dan Crain said Whiptail has nearly 200 XLR8r units in production. Its systems are targeted at customers with the highest read and write performance needs.

“A lot of people are talking about [flash storage],” he said. “We’ve actually built it and we’re shipping it now. We’re out of the hype zone and focused on substance. We don’t talk much but we deliver. When we talk, it’s about stuff in the field now, not what will be there five years into the future.”

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